Monodisperse InAs Quantum Dots from Aminoarsine Precursors

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Monodisperse InAs quantum dots from aminoarsine precursors: understanding the role of reducing agent Vishwas Srivastava, Eleanor Dunietz, Vladislav Kamysbayev, John S. Anderson, and Dmitri V. Talapin Chem. Mater., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b01137 • Publication Date (Web): 21 May 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on May 23, 2018

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Monodisperse InAs quantum dots from aminoarsine precursors: understanding the role of reducing agent Vishwas Srivastava, † Eleanor Dunietz, † Vladislav Kamysbayev, † John S. Anderson, † and Dmitri V. Talapin*, †, ‡ †Department of Chemistry and James Frank Institute, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States ‡Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Lab, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States ABSTRACT: Aminopnictides have recently emerged as convenient and versatile precursors for the synthesis of III-V quantum dots (QDs). Initial reports have suggested that an additional reducing agent is required for the formation of InAs QDs starting from aminoarsine precursors. In this work, we use the hydride donor ability of the reducing agent as the tuning knob for the kinetics of QD nucleation and growth. We introduce Alane N, N-dimethyethylamine complex, a well-known reductant in organic synthesis, as a superior reducing agent for the controlled activation of aminoarsines in the synthesis of InAs QDs. This simple, one-pot approach leads to monodisperse spherical InAs QDs with tunable sizes that show band edge emission. The optimized reaction kinetics enables the narrowest absorption and emission linewidths for InAs QDs synthesized from convenient aminoarsine precursors. This work demonstrates the possibility of rational tuning the reaction space in the synthesis of colloidal III-V QDs.

Materials that absorb and emit in the short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) region of the electromagnetic spectrum are important for applications in telecommunication,1 night vision,2 photovoltaics3 and in-vivo biological imaging.4 However further technological development of these applications requires high quality, inexpensive and solutionprocessed SWIR emitters. For instance, in-vivo biological imaging requires the probes to be non-toxic, bright and narrow-band emitters.5 Materials with similar qualities are also desirable for large area partially transparent photovoltaic concentrators matched to Si photovoltaic cells.6-7 Solution processed semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have naturally emerged as attractive candidates for such applications.8-13 Indium Arsenide (InAs) QDs are one of the promising candidates for SWIR applications as they combine the superior electronic and optoelectronic properties of the III-V semiconductor family with the virtues of size tunable optical properties and solution processability afforded by colloidal QDs.14 Colloidal InAs QDs show size tunable emission in the critical SWIR window of 750 nm-1400 nm where the main competitor is PbS QDs.15-16 The toxicity and chemical instability of PbS makes InAs a more favorable choice for both bio imaging and optoelectronic devices.17-18 An important advantage of InAs over PbS is its tetrahedrally coordinated zinc blende lattice that can be expitaxially matched to a variety of III-V and II-VI materials in coreshell nanostructures. However the synthesis of InAs QDs has lagged behind II-VI and IV-VI semiconductor QDs due to the lack of suitable group V precursors and increased covalency of the III-V lattice.19-20 The broad size

distributions observed for as-synthesized III-V nanocrystals (NCs) are an important factor limiting their use in commercial applications.21 Since the first colloidal synthesis of InAs using the Wells’ dehalosilylation reaction22 between Indium Chloride and tris-trimethylsilyl arsine ((TMS)3As), the community has extensively explored the reactions between InX3 (where X=halide or carboxylate) and {E(CH3)3}3As (where E=Si or Ge) seeking to improve the size distribution of InAs QDs.5, 16, 23-25 However efforts to tune precursor conversion kinetics to achieve temporal separation between nucleation and growth have only been moderately successful in the case of III-V NCs.5, 26 Several other arsenic precursors have been explored but with limited success.27-29 It has been established that III-V NCs synthesized using these approaches involve non classical nucleation and growth processes where NC growth occurs through the formation of cluster-like intermediates.30-31 Presynthesized InAs clusters can be used as precursors for the size focused growth from smaller seeds resulting in populations of InAs QDs with reasonably narrow size distributions.32 Even though significant advances have been made in the understanding of InAs QD synthesis, the commercial unavailability, chemical instability and acute toxicity of (TMS)3As introduce a bottleneck for systematic exploration of InAs QDs in thin-film devices. The recent exploration of aminophosphines as precursors for synthesis of InP QDs has re-ignited general interest in aminopnictides as safer and economic alternatives to their tris-trimethylsilyl-pnictide counterparts.33 Our group has demonstrated the need for an additional reducing agent to in

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situ transform As(+III) to As(-III) state which participates in the formation of InAs QDs.34 While our approach involved diisobutylaluminum hydride (DIBAL-H) as the reducing agent, Griegel et. al. showed that P(NEt2)3 can also behave as a reducing agent for aminoarsine precursors to enable the formation of InAs QDs.35 Similarly, reductive activation of aminostibine precursors enabled the successful synthesis of InSb QDs.36 The success of these approaches has conclusively demonstrated the potential of aminopnictides as precursors for synthesis of III-V QDs. The next step is to develop approaches to control the reaction kinetics and produce monodisperse QD populations using this approach. In this report, we introduce Alane N,N-dimethylethylamine complex (DMEA-AlH3), as a more appropriate reducing agent for the synthesis of monodisperse InAs QDs using the general reaction scheme, In+III + As+III + [Reductant]  InAs. According to the LaMer model of nucleation and growth37 (Figure 1a), the synthesis of a monodisperse colloid should be designed in such a way that the monomer concentration increases rapidly to above the critical saturation limit when a short burst of nucleation occurs. These nuclei then grow rapidly to lower the monomer concentration below the critical limit, thereby allowing further particle growth at a rate determined by the slowest step in the process. The time scale of the nucleation stage in this model determines the temporal separation between nucleation and growth and hence the monodispersity of the colloid. Here we show that the precursor conversion rate can be efficiently controlled by the reducing ability of the reducing agent. An optimal reducing agent should maximize temporal separation between nucleation and growth stages of NC formation (see orange curve in Figure 1a) while not triggering undesired side reactions such as reduction of InIII to In0. We screened a variety of reducing agents and found out that there was indeed a correlation between the reducing ability and the reaction kinetics. InAs QDs can be synthesized with P(NEt2)3 , DIBAL-H, DMEA-AlH3 and LiEt3BH as reducing agents. In a typical reaction, 0.4 mmol of InCl3 was dissolved in 6 mL Oleylamine and heated to temperatures in the range of 150°C to 200°C. Subsequently, 1 molar equivalent of (As(NMe2)3) (0.4mmol) and 3 molar equivalents of the reducing agent were sequentially injected into the flask and the reaction mixture was heated further to a desired temperature (240°C280°C). The DIBAL-H and P(NEt2)3 based syntheses were optimized based on the reported protocols.34-35 We found that the size and size distribution of the final product were strongly dependent on the reducing agent used. InAs QDs synthesized using DMEA-AlH3 as the reducing agent showed a significantly narrower size distribution than the InAs QDs synthesized using other reducing agents. Figure 1b shows the absorption spectra of similar sized InAs QDs obtained by using P(NEt2)3, DIBAL-H and DMEA-AlH3 complex for comparison. InAs QDs produced from LiEt3BH showed featureless absorption spectrum. The half-width-athalf-maximum (HWHM) at the first excitonic peak (1Se-1Sh) was used as an estimate for the size distribution of InAs

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QDs. Figure 1c compares the HWHM of various sized InAs QDs prepared using different reducing agents. The HWHM of InAs QDs synthesized using DMEA-AlH3 was significantly lower than those of InAs QDs synthesized using DIBAL-H and P(NEt2)3 for all accessible sizes.

Figure 1. (a) LaMer model for the synthesis of colloidal nanocrystals. The scheme represents the effect of precursor conversion kinetics on the size distribution of final NC population. The orange curve represents the case where fast precursor conversion leads to a shorter nucleation event whereas the green curve shows the case where the nucleation stage persists for longer due to slow conversion kinetics leading to a broad size distributions. (b) Absorption spectra of InAs QDs synthesized using different reducing agents. (c) HWHM of the first excitonic peak of InAs QDs synthesized by different approaches showing relative size dispersions. (d) Schematic depiction of the reducing power of different reducing agents used in this work and their effect on the formation of InAs nanocrystals.

The effect of different reducing agents on the size distribution of InAs QDs can be rationalized in terms of their respective precursor conversion rates. For example, the weakly reducing P(NEt2)3 did not react with a solution of InCl3 and As(NMe2)3 in oleylamine at room temperature and had to be injected at elevated temperatures in the reaction mixture to crystallize InAs NCs. However, when we injected DIBAL-H or DMEA-AlH3 in the reaction mixture at room temperature, the reaction mixture slowly turned red indicating the formation of molecular intermediates related to InAs (“clusters”) (Figures S1 and S2). These intermediates were amorphous in nature (Figure S3) and likely structurally inhomogeneous, as judged by their broad absorption spectra. We monitored the evolution of absorption of solutions at 400 nm with time as a reporter of the the precursor conversion kinetics with different reducing agents (Figure S4). We found that the precursor conversion was faster when DMEAAlH3 was used as the reducing agent as compared to DIBAL-

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H. On the other hand, when the strongly reducing LiEt3BH was injected into a solution of InCl3 and As(NMe2)3 in oleylamine, we observed the reduction of InCl3 to In metal along with the formation of large InAs crystallites likely via a solution-liquid-solid process39 (Figure S5). We did not observe the formation of metallic In with other reducing agents. The reducing ability of main group hydrides can be quantified in terms of their hydride donor ability. Heiden et.al. computed the hydride donor ability of LiEt3BH to be 24 kcal/mol which is in close agreement to experimentally measured value of 26 kcal/mol.40 DMEA-AlH3 and DIBALH were found to be 37 kcal/mol and 46 kcal/mol less reducing than LiEt3BH respectively which explains the reduction of InIII to In0 by LiEt3BH.41 On the other hand, both DIBAL-H and DMEA-AlH3 selectively cleave the As-N bond in aminoarsine to produce As-H bonded intermediates which further react with In3+ to form InAs.34 Since DMEAAlH3 is slightly more reducing than DIBAL-H, the aminoarsine activation with DMEA-AlH3 leads to a more uniform nucleation event which leads to monodisperse InAs QDs (Figure 1d).

Figure 2. (a) Reaction scheme for the synthesis of InAs QDs using DMEA-AlH3 as the activating agent for As(NMe2)3. (b) Absorption spectra of several different sizes of InAs QDs synthesized using this approach. (c) TEM image of ~3.5 nm InAs QDs Inset: High resolution TEM of InAs QD showing lattice planes. (d) Powder X-ray diffraction pattern of InAs QDs. The vertical lines show the corresponding positions and intensities of X-ray reflections for bulk InAs.

The general reaction scheme for the synthesis of monodisperse InAs QDs using DMEA-AlH3 as the reducing agent is shown in Figure 2a. The sizes of InAs QDs could be tuned by varying the injection temperatures and the final synthesis temperatures. Detailed synthetic protocols are provided in the supporting information. We observed that larger InAs QDs could be obtained when DMEA-AlH3 injection was performed at higher temperatures (Figure S6). The NC size could also be increased by increasing the final crystallization temperature (Figure S7). The reaction was

monitored by taking aliquots and terminated as soon as the desired NC size was reached. Representative absorption spectra of several different sizes of InAs QDs synthesized using this approach are shown in Figure 2b. All the absorption spectra were collected on diluted aliquots taken directly out of the reaction pot without any washing or precipitation. Well resolved excitonic features can be seen for all the InAs QD sizes. A representative TEM image of ~ 3.5 nm InAs QDs (λmax = 850 nm) is shown in Figure 2c. The particles were round in shape and lattice fringes could be clearly seen in high resolution TEM images (Figure S8 and S98) indicating good crystallinity of the particles. The powder X-ray diffraction pattern (Figure 2d) of the InAs QDs was consistent with the cubic zinc blende crystal structure of bulk InAs. QD sizes calculated from the width of the 111 diffraction peak were in a good agreement with the sizes estimated from TEM images. ICP-OES analyses showed that the QDs were In-rich (In:As ~ 1.4:1) and there was no significant Al incorporation in the QDs from the reducing agent (Table S1). We also used small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) measurements to calculate the size distribution of a representative sample. Figure S10 shows the experimental SAXS curve. A mean particle size of 3.4 nm with a standard deviation of 0.5 nm was extracted from the fit. This value is in agreement with TEM measurements and agrees well with the HWHM analysis of the absorption spectra. The absorption spectrum of QDs corresponding to the SAXS curve is shown in Figure S11. The size distributions of InAs QDs obtained from our approach are on par with those obtained from fine-tuned continuous injection synthesis of InAs QDs using {E(CH3)3}3As (where E=Si or Ge) as precursors.5

Figure 3. (a) Representative Absorption and PL spectrum of small InAs QDs. Inset shows the PL spectra of two different InAs QD sizes with emission centered at 760 nm and 970 nm. A linewidth of ~80 nm was obtained for the smallest particles and ~97 nm for the large particles. (b) Transformation of InAs clusters formed at the room temperature (r.t.) into InAs NCs upon heating.

As-synthesized InAs QDs also showed band-edge emission for all synthesis batches. Figure 3a shows an example PL spectrum along with the corresponding absorption spectrum. PL spectra of the smallest and largest InAs QDs are shown in

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Figure 3a, inset. A narrow emission linewidth of 130 meV (97 nm) was obtained for the InAs QDs emitting at 1.28 eV (~970 nm). These linewidths are comparable to the best reported InAs QDs of similar sizes.5 Quantum yields of about ~1% were measured for as-synthesized InAs QDs using IR-125 dye (Indocyanine green, φ =13.6 %) as a reference which are comparable to those reported for InAs NCs synthesized using (TMS)3As.16 The emission intensities can be significantly enhanced by growing a shell of an appropriate II-VI material (ZnSe or CdSe) as has been shown in many previous reports.35, 42 Another salient feature of this approach is the ability to perform a heat-up synthesis without compromising the size distribution of the resultant InAs QDs which lends it the ability to scale up the reaction. InAs “clusters” produced by the room temperature reduction using DMEA-AlH3 could be converted into monodisperse InAs QDs upon heating to a desired temperature (Figure 3b). We were also able to extend the size range of InAs QDs by using the clusters formed at room temperature as the reactants for performing overgrowth of pre-synthesized InAs QDs. Slow syringe pump injection of the InAs “clusters” to a solution of purified InAs QDs at 220°C led to an increase of InAs QD size without a significant increase in the size distribution (Figure S12). A similar approach has been used by Tamang et.al. where they used clusters synthesized by the room temperature reaction of In(oleate)3 and (TMS)3As as precursors for size focused growth of pre-syntheszied InAs seeds. We believe that further optimization of the growth protocols can yield monodisperse InAs QDs in an extended size range. In conclusion, we have demonstrated that careful selection of the reducing agent for activation of tris(dimethylamino)arsine precursor enables formation of high quality InAs QDs. Our work shows that the choice of reducing agent (hydride donor) plays an important role in determining the precursor conversion kinetics and hence the

size distribution of the final QD population. InAs QDs synthesized using this approach are significantly more monodisperse as compared to InAs particles produced using other aminoarsine based approaches and comparable to those prepared using multistep procedures using (TMS)3As. There is a broad selection of commercially available reducing agents whose hydride donor ability is tabulated through experimental and computational studies.40 We believe that this concept can be extended to the synthesis of other III-V QDs using aminopnictide precursors.

ASSOCIATED CONTENT Supporting Information Experimental Procedures, Spectral and structural data. This material is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.”

AUTHOR INFORMATION Corresponding Author [email protected]

Notes The authors declare no competing financial interests

ACKNOWLEDGMENT We thank Zachariah M. Heiden for helpful discussions. We are also thankful to S. Nitya Sai Reddy and Margaret H. Hudson for comments on the manuscript. This work was primarily supported by the University of Chicago Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, which is funded by NSF under award number DMR-1420709, by NSF under award number CHE-1611331, and by the Department of Defense (DOD) Air Force Office of Scientific Research under grant number FA9550-15-1-0099.

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